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In this hands-on lab the attendees will gain insight in the types of misinformation an internet user can come across. Ranging from on-line bullying to the algorithms with which social platforms steer their users into the arms of advertisers, influencers of a questionable kind or political agitators; and from fake news to complete deep fake, AI-generated ‘human’ beings. Jointly we will explore the various forms online, and experience how they work and manifest themselves. We will discuss the role of (public) libraries in this context. Is it enough for libraries to make their clients aware of misinformation and manipulative influencing? What is the effect it can have on their personal lives but also on the society at large? Or should the libraries take a much more activist stance and label or even ban information and algorithms that cannot be completely trusted? This workshop does not only deal with pure misinformation but also with the potential undertow of misinformation. Into which you can easily be lured and then become part of a secluded bubble. On exemplary topics the participants will find out the quantity of misinforming sources and the demarcation of trusted information resource. Take-aways from this workshop: Overview of recent developments in misinformation and counter-initiatives Awareness of the different levels at which libraries can play a role and concrete examples of what is already being done Insight in the role of AI in this
Unter dem Titel "Die FakeHunter" hat die Büchereizentrale Schleswig-Holstein ein Planspiel für SchülerInnen ab der 7./8. Klasse entwickelt. Im Blended Learning-Format verbindet das Planspiel Präsenzveranstaltungen in der Bibliothek mit einer Online-Phase, in der die Jugendlichen selbst aktiv werden. Das Thema FakeNews ist nach wie vor ein großer Faktor der Verunsicherung. Jugendliche haben oftmals kein Problembewusstsein für die Wirkungen von Falschmeldungen. Und sie wissen nicht, wie sie Nachrichten und Meldungen überprüfen und damit als Falschmeldungen entlarven können. In dem Planspiel Die FakeHunter sollen die Jugendlichen detektivisch tätig werden und lernen, mit Hilfe von Fake-Prüfwerkzeugen und verlässlichen Quellen Fakten zu überprüfen und zu verifizieren. Die Jugendlichen werden durch das Planspiel in eine Story eingebunden: Sie sind Mitarbeiter einer Detektei, die den Auftrag von einem Zeitungsverlag erhält, ein verdächtiges News-Portal zu untersuchen. Nach einer ersten Schulungsveranstaltung (Präsenzveranstaltung 1), in der die Jugendlichen zu Fakten-Checkern ausgebildet werden, geht es in die Online-Phase. Die Jugendlichen nehmen das News-Portal nun genauestens unter die Lupe. Es werden Teams gebildet, die mit den neu erlernten Fake-Prüfwerkzeugen die einzelnen Artikel untersuchen und gefundene FakeNews belegen (Online-Phase). Gegen Ende des Planspiels werden die Ergebnisse ausgewertet und die SchülerInnen bekommen Urkunden, die sie zu "Fakten-Checkern" ernennen (Präsenzveranstaltung 2). Die schleswig-holsteinischen Bibliotheken werden im Vorfeld von der Büchereizentrale zum Thema FakeNews und zur Durchführung des Planspiels geschult. In einer Praxisarbeitshilfe werden die Inhalte und die Anleitungen zur Durchführung veröffentlicht und allen öffentlichen Bibliotheken zur Verfügung gestellt.
In this session, Bravender, McClure and Schaub, editors of Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians will discuss the idea of threshold concepts and how conceptual teaching has been transformative in their work as information literacy instructors and library liaisons. The editors began their research in threshold concepts as a way to focus on the core, elemental ideas rather than procedural skills in library instruction. At the same time, the use and discussion of information literacy threshold concepts increased in the United States as a variety of thinkers and organizations published research and incorporated threshold concepts into high profile documents. The presenters will discuss the theory of threshold concepts and that scholarship's impact on information literacy scholarship and practice in the United States. They will also discuss briefly some of the other research surrounding information literacy, threshold concepts, and instruction, and the Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Framework, organized around six threshold concepts in information literacy as identified in recent research, reflects developments in the information landscape as threshold concepts have become influential. The book is intended as a guide and inspiration for instruction librarians to teach the foundational ideas of information literacy and to offer plans for putting this theory into practice. This collection of lessons, a collaboration of teaching librarians from across the United States, represents the immense interest in meaningful instruction shared by so many. The presenters will then lead a workshop in which participants are given the opportunity to discuss the threshold concepts identified in the Framework and to create activities or lesson plans that they can use in their instruction to introduce their students to information literacy threshold concepts.
This paper provides an overview of recent information literacy initiatives in the UK from the Chair of the UK Information Literacy Group (ILG). In the UK in the higher education sector there is an enthusiastic and highly skilled group of librarians helping to develop information literate graduates in almost all universities. However, outside this sector, information literacy in schools, public libraries and in the workplace is less well recognised. The UK government has increasingly been focusing on the importance of ‘digital skills’ or ‘digital literacy’ for the wider population as a whole, linking it to economic prosperity. Several recent government reports have failed to define digital literacy, equating it with computer literacy, and worse, not recognising the valuable work that information professionals are doing in the information literacy field. This paper will provide an overview of the work the ILG are doing to try to ensure that information literacy expertise is more widely recognized. Reaching out beyond both higher education and the library profession is become increasingly important, so the paper discusses three recent research projects funded through the ILG bursary scheme launched in April 2014. These projects have focused on ‘digital literacy’ and the role of public libraries, information literacy in the workplace, and information literacy as part of citizenship and young people’s political awareness.
Closer to home, at LSE, Jane leads a project with undergraduate students to develop a greater understanding of their digital and information literacy needs. The Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy (SADL) project has now completed its second year and this paper will report on the evaluation and impact study that was undertaken in June 2015. It provides some lessons learnt about how similar projects can best support students, the aspects of digital literacy that were most valuable to students and the way in which students can act as peer mentors. It also provides information about the benefits of SADL to staff at LSE, and the specific challenges that this project experienced.
SADL began in October 2013. The focus of the project was four interactive workshops run across the academic year. Workshops were designed to teach students aspects of digital literacy, but also to be an opportunity to learn from the students about their current practices and to share ideas. In the second year the project was extended to 4 academic departments and the number of student ambassadors grew from 20 to 40. Scaling up the project had a number of implications in terms of the resources required. The project team also introduced several new activities during the second year including: creating Senior Ambassadors, who were students from year one of the programme who acted as mentors for the current cohort and helped to run workshops for the new group. Student also undertook group projects, supervised by a senior ambassador to prepare a presentation for the final SADL celebration event.
Finally this paper will reflect on the use of terminology and on the value of information literacy frameworks and standards. It will explore the role these can all play in ensuring those outside the library profession (with a lesser understanding of what information literacy is) fully understand its importance, both in an academic context, but also in the workplace and in society.
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SADL Project home page (2015) London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl
We have adopted SMILE at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). SMILE (Study Methods and Information Literacy Exemplars) was created as a JISC project by Imperial College London, Loughborough University and University of Worcester. It is designed in HTML with multimedia and can be used in any VLE. The files are available through Jorum under a Creative Commons License. I hope to show that taking previously written material and adapting it can really work. I will discuss how we have gone on to customise it to GCU and to respond to developing trends such as Graduate Skills. During 2010 the university produced a set of Graduate Attributes for the 21st century. We saw that many of them could be supported through SMILE. We mapped these attributes to SMILE units, then extended them to include the CBI’s[1] graduate attributes and the National Information Literacy Framework (NILF), Scotland. We created a competency framework using the NILF and the IL unit from SirLearnaLot to support students. This process identified some gaps in SMILE so we created new modules: “What is a GCU student?” and “Your digital footprint”. Supporting GCU’s aims and objectives is key to ensuring university buy in and ensuring we provide appropriate support to our students. SMILE forms the core of the library’s IL programme and is a key aim within the Library Strategy. The challenge now is to turn the aim into a reality. The programme is available via GCU’s VLE, GCULearn and a pilot project to incorporate it into our IL training both in the UK and overseas is underway. I will report on the results of the pilot and to the future of SMILE at GCU.
SMILE stands for Study Methods and Information Literacy Exemplars, a blended learning approach to teaching information literacy and communication skills. It is an online information literacy course the Saltire Centre of Glasgow Caledonian University makes available on a BlackBoard VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), and uses OER (Open Educational Resources). SMILE was orginally created as a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) project jointly by Imperial College London, Loughborough University and the University of Worchester. It uses audio and video as well as web pages.
In Switzerland the research network SWITCH has taken up the responsibility to build and maintain an AAI federation, focusing on e-learning in the first phase. In 2006 initiatives followed to establish the service in libraries. The lecture discusses the necessary steps that have been taken to incorporate all of the Swiss universities and schools of higher education into the federal system.